A large communications satellite has broken up in orbit, affecting users in Europe, Central Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Australia, and adding to the growing swarm of space junk clouding our planet’s neighborhood.
The Intelsat 33e satellite provided broadband communication from a point some 35,000 kilometers above the Indian Ocean, in a geostationary orbit around the equator.
Initial reports on Oct. 20 said Intelsat 33e had experienced a sudden power loss. Hours later, US Space Forces-Space confirmed the satellite appears to have broken up int